Degree in Dental Medicine (1988).
Clinical Assistant Professor of Endodontics at FMDUL.
Pioneer, in Portugal, in the Continuous Wave Condensation technique (1994) and in the use of the Microscope in Endodontics (surgical and non surgical).
Member of the American Association of Endodontics.
Clinical practice exclusive in Endodontics and Implantology (surgical phase).
Coordinator of the course “Clinical Endodontics” at Clinica Pedro Cruz.
Summary of the presentation
There has been a revolution in Dentistry in the last 20 years and Implantology and Endodontics are a good example.
Nevertheless, although nonsurgical endodontic treatment and surgical microendodontics gives good results in most cases where periapical lesions of endodontic origin are present, the clinician quite often extract the teeth involved.
This approach can lead to marked alveolar bone crest collapse, mainly in the cases where nothing is done to avoid this, and may compromise implant placement that ultimately will be disadvantageous to our patients.
In fact Endodontics has now evolved into Microendodontics and by using state-of-the-art equipment, instruments and materials that match biological concepts, used with clinical practice, it is now possible to produce predictable outcomes in the healing of most of the lesions of endodontic origin, and obtain success rates similar to those of implantology.
In many situations clinical decision making is difficult and patient preferences become very important.
The goal of this presentation is to give guidelines that will help the clinician in the clinical decision making process. Several clinical cases will be presented, with slides and videos, that will help to understand the limits and the horizons of this “new” Endodontics (surgical and non surgical).